ASC Workshop
ASC Teacher Workshop
January 29th to February 2, 2008
Paiute-Shoshone Reservations in and Lone Pine, Big Pine, and Bishop, California
Contact Information for the Project Coordinator at this site:
Kathy Bancroft, Director Lone Pine Indian Education Center
E-mail.
The three Indian Education Centers in Owen Valley, California will participate in the professional development to be held January 20 to February 2, 2008. The education centers are on the Paiute-Shoshone Reservations in Lone Pine, Big Pine, and Bishop that serve American Indian youth grades K through 12. The students eligible for the ASC field-test program also attend local public schools and, on average, make up about 15 percent of the student body.
The purpose of this first ASC workshop in Owens Valley is to address modifications of the curriculum materials to be more culturally relevant to the students in this area. Studies by Aikenhead and others report encouraging positive outcomes have occurred with students when curriculum materials are culturally relevant (Aikenhead, 2001 and Matthews and Smith, 1994). There will be an emphasis during the field-testing on tailoring the scientific content and the pedagogical practices to best suit the needs of the teachers and students in this unique setting.
Between 15 and 20 secondary students will participate in the ASC program beginning in March 2008 and continuing through the summer. The sequence of activities and the application of scientific research by the students will be designed to take advantage of the resources available in and round Owens Valley. For example teachers and students will take field trips and plan research projects using the geologically and biologically rich environment surrounding Owens Valley.
Biology
Extreme Organisms:
Searching for extreme organisms that may be present in the glaciers on the reservation.
Glaciers of California by Bill Guyton
Chapter summary of Modern Glaciers, Ice Age Glaciers, the Origin of Yosemite Valley, and a Glacier Tour in the Sierra Nevada
California Natural History Guides
http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/8119/8119.ch04.html
Driving Directions and topographical map to Big Pine / Glacier Lodge, the North Fork and South Fork trailheads http://www.climber.org/DrivingDirections/BigPine.html
Palisades Glacier trail by Piero Scaruffi
http://www.scaruffi.com/monument/hikes/sill.html
Severe Climate, Saline Conditions, and Hot Springs of the Mojave Desert
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojave_Desert
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saline_Valley,_California
Astronomy
Caltech Astronomy: Introduction to OVRO
The Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO) is the largest university-operated radio observatory in the world. The observatory is located near Bishop, California, approximately 250 miles north of Los Angeles on the east side of the Sierra Nevada. For reference, its coordinates are 37°14'02" latitude, 118°16'56" longitude at 1222 meters above sea level. A radio telescope collects radio waves coming from a small region of the sky and brings them to a focus. At the focus, a receiver converts the radio waves into electrical signals that can be processed immediately or recorded for later use.
http://www.ovro.caltech.edu/
The Barcroft Observatory is part of the White Mountain Research Station
http://www.wmrs.edu/facilities/BAR/OBSERVATORY/default.htm
Earth Sciene
Studying the geologic history of the area and using rock samples with the ALTA II Reflectance Spectrometer to collect data on the proportions of colored light (including infrared) that reflect from real-world objects.
Lunar Planetary Institute
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/products/spectrometer/
White Mountain Research Station
http://www.wmrs.edu/default.htm
The White Mountain Research Station is a multicampus research unit (MRU) of the University of California Office of Research, with a campus office located at UC San Diego. WMRS includes a base station near the town of Bishop (Owens Valley Lab; elevation 4000') , a montane station at Crooked Creek (elev. 10,200'), an alpine station at Barcroft (elev. 12,500'), and a high alpine summit lab on White Mountain Peak (elev. 14,250').
The Owens River (foreground) is lined by reddish willows, while the Sierra Nevada range is covered in snow.
The town of Bishop is in the center-right and the White Mountain Research Station Owens Valley Laboratory may be seen at lower left.
Color-coded geologic map of Owens Valley University of Wisconsin - Green Bayhttp://www.uwsp.edu/geo/projects/geoweb/participants/dutch/VTrips/OwensValley.HTM
Sierra Nevada (U.S.) - Wikipedia, Image of the Sierra Nevada and Owens Valley from the International Space ... Glaciers carved out characteristic U-shaped canyons throughout the Sierra.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Nevada_(U.S.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owens_Valley
Kinematics of the eastern California shear zone; evidence for slip transfer from Owens and Saline Valley fault zones to Fish Lake Valley fault zone
http://geology.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/abstract/24/4/339
Doctoral Dissertation of, Alan Reed Gillespie (1982-03-23) Quaternary glaciation and tectonics in the southeastern Sierra Nevada, Inyo County, California.
http://etd.caltech.edu/etd/available/etd-04102003-122837/
Owens Valley Minerals
http://www.gemandmineral.com/owens.html
